The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story is written by Blanche H. Gelfant and published by Columbia University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0231504950 (ISBN 10) and 9780231504959 (ISBN 13).

Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.